Stefan Thurner


Stefan Thurner is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. He has been professor for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna since 2009, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute since 2007, senior researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg / Austria since 2010, and guest professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore since 2016.
He promoted the foundation of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and has been its president since 2015. The Hub is a research co-operation of five Austrian universities, two research institutions, and the Austrian Economic Chambers, with the aim to promote Big Data and complexity research in Austria.
Stefan Thurner's research areas are the foundations of complex systems, systemic risk, network medicine, computational social sciences, and financial crisis.
In 2018, Stefan Thurner was awarded "Scientist of the year 2017" in Austria.

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